Fancy being locked in a room and forced to learn Irish? No, it's not a return to school, but it could be a new reality television series "as gaeilge".
TG4 is looking at buying the Irish-language rights to a series which could be described as a cross between Big Brother and Castaway.
The double challenge is to become a fluent Irish speaker while locked away in a remote area for two months. Ms Prionsias Ní Gráinne, TG4 commissioning editor, said the station was "seriously considering" the idea.
S4C, the Welsh channel, will air the first series of the reality television show this autumn.
The Welsh series involves 16 contestants who stay within the walls of a remote language learning centre in north-west Wales for two months in an attempt to become competent Welsh-speakers.
Three of the contestants are Spanish-speaking Patagonians, while the others are from Wales and England.
Patagonia was chosen as it has a small Welsh-speaking community.
The cameras follow their every move and mispronunciation and, as in Big Brother, the contestants face weekly challenges. But in this case, the challenges are linguistic and the winners are allowed privileges such as phoning home or having a meal at a local restaurant.
Ms Ní Gráinne said she had recently seen the idea at the Celtic Film Festival and had already discussed it with colleagues.
"But we decided to let it run with SC4 first and see how it went," she said.
"I think it would be great for the Irish language and it would be very funny."
She said it would be very difficult to entice viewers to watch 16 people being taught Irish in a classroom situation, but the Big Brother angle would make it much more interesting.
"It will help us to laugh at ourselves and to not take the whole thing so seriously. It would also be highly visual."
TG4 and the Welsh station already have close links. The Irish station recently sold a new thriller format to SC4.
Tríscéal, which aired on TG4 last year, was a three-hour thriller based around the number three.
